this is changing the world rights now. the old picture of the states is long distance from around the globe. up to. on r.t. international reporting tonight fears of a possible environmental catastrophe after several ukrainian army shells landed a chemical factory as cared for paris what it calls now the final stage of its liberation of the restive east of the country. battled iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki refuses to step down as the country's president names a new premier league his forces are reportedly taking up keep positions now across baghdad and. riot locked out of swat teams deployed to stop looting and street violence in the u.s.

state of missouri after the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer. good evening ten pm here in moscow now when i was kevin owners could overcome these things for children to us our top story the ukrainian army says it's entering the final stage of its mission to liberate donetsk but so far this appears only to have meant stepping up its shelling of residential districts of east ukraine's biggest city leaving the people there on the brink of a humanitarian crisis thousands in the resistance stronghold of been living without electricity heavy shelling has crippled power stations across the city and now that a major water filtering plants also been destroyed by air raids several districts are left without water two main time all major supply routes have been cut off leaving donetsk with a severe shortage of medicine amongst other things amid the ongoing violence the

patients and staff for instance of this maternity unit have been forced to stay in the basement nurses say they managed to get upstairs for only about ten minutes at a time to try to get some food to use basic facilities but then the bombardment starts again another snapshot also internets here dozens of inmates who go missing off the shelves pound at the local jail one prisoner died a number of others were injured when their cells were directly hit around one hundred convicted criminals escape trying to save their lives but half of them still at large tonight. so as cure of tries to wrest control of the east a major new threat submerged as well that we can tell you about the region houses scores of industrial facilities and plant managers are now raising the alarm over a pretentious catastrophe take a look at these these are projectiles that landed at one major chemical plant outside the nets in the city of god love care if issues about factories so that if the army carries on targeting its facilities there is a high risk of an environmental disaster. of the city

and the chemical plant continue day and night i officially announced they're due to be irresponsible actions of the ukrainian army the citizens of ukraine russia and belarus are exposed to the deadly threat of an ecological disaster only daily bases the size of which cannot be calculated at the minimal impact zone would be at least three hundred kilometers west of that chemical plant stores over two thousand tons of a substance known as blood poison it's apparently used for something to make pain production and if it enters your body the experts say it can affect the heart the liver bone marrow eventually could cause death on top of that there are thirty tons of t.n.t. at that facility and nearby ten thousand cubic meters of liquid ammonia also reportedly being stored if you get to the edge of that high concentrations that can lead to blindness lung damage and death as we heard just a moment but from a plant spokesperson a potential leak thing could affect an area of over three hundred kilometers in radius that would reach as far as russia's real stuff region and the waters of the

as of black sea the fact which is one of many located in and around thirteen cities in the donetsk region which is now a war zone overall there are one hundred forty five plants that house potential biohazards that are considered to be at risk. a professor of environmental toxicology told us more about the potential dangers looming here. if it is vaporized in some way and that would possibly be by tourette hits with explosives or very intense fire chemical gas that's a date once it's in the air for a very long time. degrades in the atmosphere very very slowly if it lands on soil or water it is also there for quite a long time it doesn't degrade it to all easily that has implications obviously for people for the environment for any crops that are grow so really a chemical plant ought to be

a no go zone in any conflict in other developments russia says it will supply the threatened regions with humanitarian help a move that's been approved by kiev earlier the ukrainian authorities have been opposed to any help from moscow the red cross is also invited been invited to provide aid for the people who go after that city declared a humanitarian disaster last week rif an option is there. the ganske made luke abandoned but there are still people here. those who didn't flee have a daily struggle to survive the city has been without electricity for more than a week now but it's the shortage of water which poses the biggest humanitarian challenge this woman is called. in russian her name means home but she has little of that left dr judy but one job is unique in your heart not of one couple of bonbons what we did go to the blue did you can show it's a new being to new we've got new cheer war got numb she got no word of what's going

to shut out the info board you chill my life or your usual storm i'm sure it's getting a bit of queues form early in the morning because people are afraid they won't be enough fuel to go around still no way back there. as it just has been below grandstander me i'm not sure of well nice to meet you when you yell it premiered you have been you cheer when you didn't get it breath third feel near that steely years a d. of a near the edge of the earth even the coke good and bad at the both of us going to say that the then your cook so far and you'll still have a good deal of i know the billionaire financier gets a cut or enough to give the bill up and some of the city's district's residents have to use water pumps because it's a no go zone for trucks that could share out the precious liquid of oil out of the all of the words in the world but the logic is that americans. that's a weird little place a city with no water and no power also has no contact with the outside world. there

are big problems with connection now in the guns going all over the city and we couldn't get any signal anywhere but there are some places where people say you might be able to connect this is one of the places we keep on trying and trying we hope but still we don't have any signal but what we don't like about this place resists warning signs say attention do not call shelling area but people still try their luck they say the entire cities shelling area now and at least here they can talk to relatives and friends on the phone and. every day in the guns at least a dozen apartment buildings and private houses are hate by tillery fire some of them more than once. mccloy's flood is on the eighth floor fortunately none of his family was her it

went was hate these plasma television is the only thing he managed to save he makes one more trip to salvage his belongings. but comes back minutes later and he handed . the u.n. estimates over one hundred seventeen thousand people accounted displaced inside ukraine and russia's authorities claim more than seven hundred thirty thousand ukrainians have crossed the border since the conflict started but in lugansk and other cities across eastern ukraine often huddled together terrified in dark basements and other havens which aren't always as safe as they seem many more remain. in lugansk ukraine. aside to this the o.s.c. is demanding that a russian photojournalist who's been missing in ukraine for most a week be released moscow's urge rights groups to help andre stand in while amnesty international says reporters should not be taken hostage period his colleagues in

rear novice news agency launched a twitter campaign with a house tag free andrew he was reportedly detained by ukraine's security services but that said link here has been denying causes worth noting it's not the first time a journalist covering the conflict in east ukraine is gone missing last month graham phillips from britain who was working for r.t. when he was seized by ukraine's security forces before releasing philip so that also denied that they've been detaining him so we'll keep track of this post. also . next baghdad is bracing for a possible coup the country's u.s. backed presidents named a new prime minister now but incumbent nuri maliki is refusing to step down his forces are reportedly taking up positions across baghdad he's now lost the support of washington which had previously enjoyed it for years let's do a quick recap when maliki took up the premier's post in two thousand and six he'd been checked it was approved by the cia it positioned himself as a close friend of america was eager to shake hands for instance with the then

president of the day george w. bush in december two thousand and six he signed. play with the execution was necessary to pay homage to human rights however maliki apparently took a different approach to freedom of speech has been accused of cracking down on the iraqi media fast forward to twenty ten he also proclaimed himself interior minister reinforcing his grip on power now at the time a leak he said it was a temporary move but it's worth noting he holds that post still four years on on top of all that he's got his own private army a shia militia which bases orders a load i spoke with antiwar activist brian beckett he told me washington has no turned its back on maliki because he no longer serves u.s. interests in iraq. they want mali gone they believe that there needs to be a new face on the iraqi government a new way to patch together a unity government in order to save the country or do order person prosecute the struggle against the islamic with a we've got some top u.s. officials saying the islamic state how does

a direct threat to the west and now an image is being used to back this claim is thought of a young australian boy this guy holding up the severed head of a syrian soldier well if the islamic state threatens to take a kurdish regional government or below where a lot of new oil is or if they take baghdad or try to again next intro's the southern oil regions of iraq or if they move on jordan which is considered this will teach again said the u.s. will view it as a threat to the west east will be islamic state is a reactionary awful organization but why is it in existence why did it get strong because the us fueled arms into the civil war in syria fueling arms to that same entity and of course the us fractured iraq allowing this group to grow three years ago they had six military operations just six and now they're a dynamic military force again as a consequence perhaps the unintended consequence but the consequence nonetheless of u.s. policy in iraq that has shredded that country as a national entity. coming up adding insult to injury as the war is put on hold now

palestinians find mocking messages of party left by israeli troops on the walls of the ruined flats we've got more on that coming up in a few minutes time also to torture and killings understands national now reporting on what it says could be war crimes committed by u.s. troops in afghanistan. when the european union promised to meet ukraine become part of it it clearly contributed to the exacerbation of tensions within ukraine ukraine will not become part of the european union the won't tell tales ukraine absolutely doesn't have the economic level to become part of the e.u. or been. on merit in the financial world. to goldman's cannot stop

exuberance only take credit. in life there are groups and there are but. do we speak your language or not of the. news programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news that will turn it into angles stories. for you here. in troy spanish to find out more visit. hello again rights ruptured overnight in the u.s. state of missouri over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by police officers locals say they about enough of law enforcement brutality and what they call racial profiling our correspondent got you to count them as the latest. this

monday michael brown black teenager was to begin his first day in college crowd gathered to hold a vigil for him on sunday with people struggling to understand how police could shoot an unarmed teenager in broad daylight but the gathering quickly turned violent as anger and frustration took over about one hundred fifty officers in riot gear along with a swat team were sent to the area the teenager was shot eight times the officer involved in michael brown's killing has not been identified he was reportedly put on administrative leave this shooting triggered a deep frustration in the country about police brutality and racial profiling and the fact. that many officers get away with it. captured on the bystanders camera new york police suspect the man of selling individual cigarettes i do so do you think just moments later an officer puts him in what appears to be a choke hold and brings him to the ground. where forty three year old barry gardner

can be heard saying i can't breathe several times. eric garner died lying at the feet of those police officers leaving behind a wife and six children my son is missing. the officer who put very garnered in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty the video garners death in july would viral sparking protests in local communities why has the city not been barking at campaign. targets zero deaths of police brutality but it's not just new york police that is being accused of using excessive force in recent months in arizona police confronted university professors or for jaywalking. was back i was never asked what my name was i was never told what i was in violation of. in california

at fifty one year old marlene pinecones walking along the highway when a patrol officer straddled her and began with p. diddley punching her upper body. the woman is known to be homeless and reportedly suffering from psychiatric problems i think much of the brutality comes from cultural problem where police officers have been used to school in a power structure where a three that they can get away where almost anything because they are the police video cameras have only captured some incidents but many more took place away from the public eye more and more people filmed their interactions with the police on camera one officer from new jersey was caught saying this to someone who argued he had a constitutional right to take pictures in a certain area or a care or a writing course for office this. week so i think there's a forecast for this officer apologised for the statement and resigned you know that

the case is so brutality and well documented on camera casts a shadow on the thousands upon thousands of police officers who diligently do their work in cities across america but the hope is that greater public awareness will make some police officers think twice before abusing someone in washington i'm going to check out our team. israeli and palestinian delegations are still in cairo tonight hoping to secure a longer term ceasefire the latest temporary truce appears to be holding after began late on sunday over a month of fighting those claim all the nineteen hundred palestinian lives of a four hundred fifty of them being children. most girls are all. born live. now some hamas officials say rocket attacks will resume though if negotiations in

egypt lead nowhere the militants want the blockade of gaza lifted but on the other side israel says easing access to the area will only allow must to restart his weapons the previous entry to a truce ended on friday and at least twenty palestinians have been killed since that israel finance minister says gaza could get a massive aid package now if a mass is ousted from power. many gaza residents return to the devastated homes during that last cease fire as they search for their belongings in the rubble some of them found messages in hebrew apparently left by israeli soldiers let's take a look at some of them this one for example will pursue you rather be until you catch and destroy him and this particular offense says welcome the guests this house was totally remodeled we hope you like it. and a final one to think about written large on the wall this. piece was written large letters there even without these marking insults so the conflict is segmenting anger among people on both sides of the border as harry fear found out. since the

latest israel gaza conflict began there's been a spike in racial violence and tension between jews and arabs throughout both your keep high territories and his relit so the army installed its system of checkpoints here in two thousand and six now thousands of palestinians who live in the west bank but work inside israel mass cue from dawn to reach their workplaces for business hours pam their attitude to us since the war began has changed completely they have become more aggressive even now when we try to find transport to get to work there's discrimination in new york you find west bank civilians continue to suffer from what they say are random attacks by settlers in one recent incident an eight year old girl was hit by a car palestinians labeled it as a terror incident. the war began were really few of the settlers one leaves the

house with fear in his heart the situation's not like before and some israelis say they too now live in a climate of fear i am in the wife and and i when i walk him back i'm just so i can divide my myself. an arabic drive come to take me from my home and i'm scared i'm scared i'm scared to drive them because there was a case that a murder. a girl let's go to a while and they killed her. i didn't feel any suspicion but that's politics. but hamas i did choose. they voted for him for the hamas though we've got the bomb but. needless to say the palestinian people see the current situation from a very different perspective as palestinians we cannot accept living. petion we

cannot accept to be violated on daily basis and say we are fine with it by listing years do not hate people because of what they are or they don't hate people because they are jews simply palestinians do not accept occupation and its policy harry fear r.t. jerusalem. if you go to check out our website to find out to go home we compiled a picture gallery called stolen childhood it contains images of children gaza to live through this day in day out by the violence the effect is having on. you amnesty international report slammed the u.s. military over the top shia and killing of civilians in afghanistan calling the apparent war crimes of the gun unpunished airstrikes responsible for approximately one thousand civilian deaths another source of civilian casualties was next collation of so-called force incidents when civilians were fired on at checkpoints

or near military convoys the report says the u.s. military falls far short of what's needed to ensure accountability for the alleged atrocities to amnesty international steve crawshaw told us what incidents the human rights group regards as war crimes in afghanistan. one end of the spectrum if through extrajudicial executions in other words if you just come in and kill civilians right there then clearly if you torture somebody to death that's clearly a war crime but beyond that what we're seeing is for example an asse strikes where we see that it was only civilians who died for example a group of women and girls and women collecting firewood or seeing an absolute lack of accountability we're seeing a lack of investigation we're seeing a lack of any consequence and so we have as you see seemed to say seen some high profile cases in general those have tended to come when. the person's own comments have kind of brought this forward and where the authenticity really to bring it forward the trouble is we have a situation where the military is ready to investigate itself military commanders can themselves overrule. whether there is going to be an investigation or not we

need to have external involvement we need to have above all of us or thought it is the u.s. military themselves should of course wish to get to the bottom of things they should not wish crimes take place and if they are then they should really wish to investigate. when will these are brief the president of liberia is no quarantined an entire county to try to contain the a bowler a brave young we will inform warrantied of the region which has a population of two hundred seventy thousand that move comes on the same day the every coast banned all flights revolver of eight countries globalise since december twenty third to almost a thousand people have been killed by this incurable virus. turkey's current problem only well when the country's first ever direct presidential elected those fifty two percent of the vote is to rivals were a little lower diplomat and a kurdish politician the presidential vote took place just three months afterwards ruling conservative party won local elections. russia and china are free to create

a joint university project will be a collaboration between moscow state university and the beijing university of technology and you campus are said to be opened up in the chinese town of shen's and in twenty fifty quid build then the students will be taught there in russian chinese and english will seem to need to be. europe's considering handing key financial decisions back to athens a troika the troika rather a regulator made up of the european commission the central bank and the international monetary fund and compared by some greek finance the occupants could be pulled out of debt stricken greece but that would be small comfort of course to those whose lives have already been ruined by the austerity measures artie's marina cost the river as the story. enough is enough to take troika with you and let's us live that is the message from the greek taxi operators association to the government topped with demands the prime minister step down for failing to stop the

economic crisis and the strict austerity measures which resulted in poverty and desperation after this one with the biggest problem in our industry is the mess of debts to the self-employed workers insurance organization and heavy taxation if it takes he makes a profit of five thousand euros the government takes almost seventy percent of that it's not the first time great taxi drivers have reached boiling points but this new calculation which requires them to pay tax on money they haven't even earned yet could send money and so financial debt and. unfortunately our country's becoming the pakistan of europe history will repeat itself will have riots it will get ugly no one is offering any solutions so people don't know what to do the government is nonexistent it's subservient to the troika and their economic interest union reps say they feel like slaves working under a government that doesn't serve their interests it's already hard to find a job in this upon me and also lucky enough to have one fear that heavy taxation will eventually force them out onto the streets as. rising taxes

a minimal make up our taxi drivers making ends meet that's find out. soon let me. or my. many times return home unable to cover our basic needs they're taxing everything that moves and they expect you to pay for it somehow if you don't you're in danger of going to prison having your house repossessed we mortgaged our lives our children's and grandchildren's lives to pay off debts that we didn't create and we're sitting here taking it with our hands tied well by fools most greeks is the old tacitly of the government to increase the already high burden of responsibility workers have tried to contact the finance ministry so on the stand how they justify their latest tax increases and where they expect people. to find this extra money their response was no comments. but i think it's been four years of the most draconian austerity measures in europe the troika has destroyed greece that program

failed the only thing they achieved was to drag greek society into poverty unemployment of twenty seven percent salary decreases a forty percent unemployment of twenty seven percent salary decreases a forty percent skyrocketing taxes in some cases with increases of seven hundred percent it's a disaster and they need to admit it and apologize strikes are out of the question since taxi drivers can't afford to skip a day's work but the revolutionary spirit is the thing to gain momentum and many here believe that it's only a matter of time before it spills over again marina cost survive reports in from athens for r.t. and more european issues coming up next to france's outspoken foreign leaders says the e.u. has lost control of its foreign policy to washington more on that in marine le pen's interview with sophie shevardnadze so what after the break.

it was recently revealed that under the guise of an hiv prevention workshop and as tourists you know latin americans were sent to cuba by the u.s. government to overthrow that government yes the u.s. agency for international development organized for these young people to go to cuba to recruit and set up new political activists however the infiltrators were not very good at their jobs and the cuban authorities were able to now but these well funded travelers in their country this is nowhere near the first time that the u.s. government has tried to meddle in cuba in two thousand and nine u.s.a.t. tried to set up a twitter like program to organize people in cuba and we can't forget about the ill fated cuba. television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in

a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is the justification why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put in america and they have limited industrial capacity they can't do anything to anyone just leave the poor island alone and let the people there figure out their own future without the us state department's help but that's just my opinion.